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Audiophile Headphones Make It To First Class Seats

No Delta didn't hand out high end headphones (but what a great idea) however on the 767-300 that I flew out to Atlanta (onto Philly) this week there were a LOT of people turning down the free ear buds because they had their own "cans".

Here's What I Saw:
• My wife uses a pair of Audio Technica headphones that fold up and do noise canceling.
• I use Etymotic ER-4s with custom ear molds - nice for blocking our crying babies as well as crying adults.
• The two mexican guys in front of me BOTH had the around-ear B&O headphones. Very cool design statement.
• The woman in front of me to the right had the Bowers and Wilkins as did another person.

Note: no Beats by Dre in first.

Its good to see high end headphones showing up with more of the masses.

Do you think iPads are pushing people to be more audio centric starting with headphones or is everybody just going deaf from LOUD MP3 files being blasted into their ears?

While first class may have first class tastes -at least in terms of "mainstream" cans I can't say the same for the folks at my gym where Beats by Dre ear warmers are always on full display. I don't mind the new Beats by Dre Pro headphones but the earlier offerings are crap.

How about it if we have a report on the very best of in ear bud headphones, particularly the ones with the best extended bass response? There is a supplier of ours that have them from Pioneer. What say you?

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